Improvement in shutter-fastenings



0. WOOLDRIDGE. Shutter-Fastening.

No. 214,861. Patented April 29,1879.

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OSCAR WOOLDRIDGE, OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHUTTER-FASTENINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 214.861, dated April29, 1879; application filed March 5, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OSCAR WOOLDRIDGE, of Memphis, in the county ofShelby and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in a Fastening for Window Shutters or Blinds; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, which will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference markedthereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 shows the blinds in section with my device applied. Fig. 2 isan edge view of the fastening.

A is a side or end bar, and, with B and B represents a square cuff orclip, the part A being one and a half or two inches in length, accordingto thickness of the stile; B and B, four (4) or six (6) inches, toaccommodate the width of the stile. D represents a hinge; O, a barhinged to bar B, and provided with slot E, to pass over bar or arm B tobe secured by lock of any kind by holes F in arm B, the whole to be madeof iron, such as is best adapted for this use.

To apply this fastening, when the blinds are closed the slats of theleft blind are opened; the fastening is placed between the slats; arm Bwith bar (3, opened on hinges D to go on the outside, and forced overthe stiles. Bar 0 is then drawn through the slats on the right shutterand placed over arm B, when it can be secured by a lock in F F.

What I claim is- The shutter-fastening herein described, in which bars Band B are permanently attached to bar A, at right angles therewith andparallel with each other, said bar B having hinged thereto a bar, 0,which is slotted to engage with the flattened end of bar B, to which itmay be locked, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own invention I affix mysignature in the presence of two witnesses.

OSCAR WOOLDRIDGE.

Witnesses T. J. LATHAM, OHAs. T. PATERSON.

